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sample	Demonstrating the feature of people picker on Adaptive Cards using bot.	office-teams office office-365	csharp	contentType createdDate samples 01/25/2022 12:00:00 AM	officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-bot-people-picker-adaptive-card-csharp

People picker control in Adaptive Cards

This sample shows the feature of people picker on Adaptive Cards.

Included Features

• Bots
• People Picker in Adaptive Card

Interaction with app

Try it yourself - experience the App in your Microsoft Teams client

Please find below demo manifest which is deployed on Microsoft Azure and you can try it yourself by uploading the app package (.zip file link below) to your teams and/or as a personal app. (Sideloading must be enabled for your tenant, see steps here).

People picker control in Adaptive Cards: Manifest

Prerequisites

• .NET Core SDK version 6.0

  determine dotnet version

  dotnet --version

• Ngrok (For local environment testing) Latest (any other tunneling software can also be used)

• Teams Microsoft Teams is installed and you have an account

Setup

1. App Registration Register a new application in the Azure Active Directory – App Registrations portal.

2. Setup for Bot In Azure portal, create a Azure Bot resource.

• Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel

3. Setup NGROK

• Run ngrok - point to port 3978

 ngrok http 3978 --host-header="localhost:3978"

4. Setup for code

• Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples.git

• Modify the /appsettings.json and fill in the following details:

  • MicrosoftAppId - Generated from Step 1 (Application (client) ID)is the application app id
  • MicrosoftAppPassword - Generated from Step 1, also referred to as Client secret
  • Press F5 to run the project

• Open the code in Visual Studio

  • File -> Open -> Project/Solution
  • Navigate to folder where repository is cloned then samples/bot-people-picker-adaptive-card/csharp/PeoplePicker.sln

5. Setup Manifest for Teams

• This step is specific to Teams.

  • Edit the manifest.json contained in the ./AppPackage folder to replace your Microsoft App Id (that was created when you registered your app registration earlier) everywhere you see the place holder string {{Microsoft-App-Id}} (depending on the scenario the Microsoft App Id may occur multiple times in the manifest.json)
  • Zip up the contents of the AppPackage folder to create a manifest.zip (Make sure that zip file does not contains any subfolder otherwise you will get error while uploading your .zip package)

• Upload the manifest.zip to Teams (in the Apps view click "Upload a custom app")

  • Go to Microsoft Teams. From the lower left corner, select Apps
  • From the lower left corner, choose Upload a custom App
  • Go to your project directory, the ./AppPackage folder, select the zip folder, and choose Open.
  • Select Add in the pop-up dialog box. Your app is uploaded to Teams.

Note: If you are facing any issue in your app, please uncomment this line and put your debugger for local debug.

Running the sample

Use the bot command peoplepickercard to get the card with people picker control

Adaptive card.

Adaptive card with details( On Assign button click, the bot will return the member id that we have selected.)

Further reading

• Bot Framework Documentation
• Bot Basics
• Azure Bot Service Introduction
• Azure Bot Service Documentation
• People picker in Adaptive Cards